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Undead Love

Chapter 4

Here I was.

I was where I needed to be.

I found him, or rather he found me. Now was my chance to do what I set out to do. But I couldn't move. I was frozen. I couldn't lift my arms to block the imminent attack, I couldn't even move out of the way. He must have been moving like lightning but it almost seemed as if things were moving in slow motion. I noticed everything in that moment.

His fierce red eyes. They were once so hard and serious, but liquefied and deepened into pools of warmth when he looked at me.

His crooked menacing grin exposing threatening sharp fangs. That grin used to be the thing I waited for everyday, his heart stopping beautiful smile, without fangs.

Then my eyes rested on his crooked form that once stood erect and powerful, exuding fierceness. Now he hunched over in a feral way that was almost animalistic.

Then his hands. They were curled into claws disgusting and frightening. Those same hands once held mine in a gentle warm way that these claws seemed incapable of.

In so many ways Dimitri was here, right in front of me. He was okay and we could go on loving each other with nothing to get in our way. But he wasn't Dimitri in the most important way. He didn't have his soul.

In that moment time sped back up and I was unfrozen. I threw my arms up in front of me to block this monster but he was too fast. He rammed into me sending me flying to the ground. A second later he was on top of me and had his whole body pressed against me. This reminded me so much of our training. My initial shock wore off and I pushed at him and kicked and struggled to throw him off of me. He just looked at me with his deadly fierceness and I realized I wasn't going to get away. He then gripped my wrists and held them to the ground around my head. I couldn't move and his head began to move down toward my face.

I realized this was it.

I was going to die.

At least it's him.

There was nothing to do but at least the love of my life was the one to end it all. I relaxed and turned my head exposing my neck. He looked at me strangely but kept approaching until his lips were right at my neck. His mouth turned up in a smile and I could feel his teeth graze my skin. I shivered a little in anticipation. No matter how disgusting Strigoi were I still remembered the ecstasy a Vampire bite brought and my body welcomed it.

Then Dimitri went rigid. His head jerked back and he flew off of me. His face was contorted in a mask of horror and disbelief. I could see it. He was still fighting it. Dimitri was still there, fighting. I started to raise my head and he backed away. He looked at me and gave me a wistful gaze of remorse and disgust at himself. Then he turned and vanished into the trees. I dropped my head and fell back onto the ground and stared up at the sky.

I looked back toward the school and Alberta, along with several other guardians, was running toward me. I smiled at them and tried to get up but then blackness started creeping at the edge of my vision until if consumed everything and I was lost in the dark.

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"Roza, Roza wake up" This voice was so beautiful. Like liquid chocolate.

My lips turned up into a smile and my eyes fluttered. Dimitri was here and everything that ahappened was all just a bad dream. Everything was okay.

I Turned and opened my eyes and there he was. My love. He was beautiful and smiling at me. I looked down and I was in a hospital bed. I must have hit my head and everything that happened was just a product of the medication or something. I looked back at Dimitri in the choir next to my bed.

"I love you Roza." He whispered.

I smiled again and opened my mouth to say it back but I couldn't speak. That was okay. I was here with Dimitri and that's all that mattered. He smiled at me and my heart melted. The one smile I adored. My smile.

Then the smile widened and his fangs glinted in the light. He was so beautiful, my heart squeezed and I wanted to go and hold him. Make sure he was real. His dark eyes deepened in color and seemed to become never ending pools of liquid. They became so dark that they started turning red at the edges.

I must be delusional.

I looked down at his beautiful, gentle hands and wanted to kiss them. Then right there they turned into frightening dirty claws. I looked back at his face and he had a disgusting smirk was there. His eyes turned menacing and he rose from his chair.

This wasn't Dimitri.

I squirmed but I couldn't move. I looked down and I wasn't in the bed any longer. I was on the ground in the dirt and my body was strewn at an odd angle. I was paralyzed and this monster was coming towards me. I opened my mouth to scream but no sound came out. I looked around now and I was surrounded by red eyes and bodies crouched and ready to attack. Their red eyes were coming toward me. I looked back to the Strigoi that was once Dimitri and I saw a silver string attached to his head. It glinted in the sunlight. Why are Strigoi out in the sunlight? I followed the string up towards the sky and strangely there were two suns. They settled and became red spheres that glowed an odd color. Then the sky looked like it was opening up and two fangs protruded. This wasn't the sky. It was a face. The blond hair fell around the face and I realized who it was.

It was the same disgusting Strigoi I despised. I looked closer and he had fists full of the silver strings. I followed a few of them and sure enough they were all attached to the heads of many of the Strigoi surrounding me.

I looked back up and booming laughter seeped out of the blond monster. "Why so silent little rose?"

The Strigoi around me closed in on me and their claws came forward at my face and I closed my eyes.

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I opened my eyes, screaming,"No! No, no, no. Leave Dimitri ALONE!"

Lissa was standing above me shaking me, eyes filled with tears. "Rose! Wake up! Are you okay?"

Her voice seemed far away. I looked around and met the eyes of everyone. Christian was there, so was Eddie and Alberta, so was my mother and many other faces I didn't recognize. A single tear slipped down my cheek and I realized how happy I was to see them even if I had been the one to run away.

"What happened Rose?" a stern Scottish accent came from the group.

My mother approached and I looked at her.

"Dimitri found me" I said mater-of-factly.

"That's impossible Rose. Dimitri is dead."

I shook my head. She should know by now that I knew the truth of Dimitri's change. I remembered back to the attack and as if a faucet was turned on, tears began streaming down my face. My mother looked at me sympathetically.

"Okay everyone lets clear the room. Rose needs her rest." My mother coaxed everyone out of the small infirmary room.

On the way out Lissa grabbed my hand, "It's all going to be okay Rose. You're back, and you're okay. Everything will be fine."

I wanted to tell her that everything would never be fine again, but instead I nodded my head. She squeezed my hand again and then left. Everyone said their versions of 'get well' as they left. My mother was the last one to leave.

I turned to her, "Mom."

This caught her off guard because only recently did we begin to have less of a hateful relationship. Her shock disappeared and her business-like mask was put in its place.

"Yes Rose, what is it?"

I gave her a stern, no fooling around look, "Dimitri was there. I'm not lying or hallucinating. He was there inside the ward."

She gave me a pained look and nodded then left the room closing the door gently behind her. I sighed and looked at the ceiling.

No red eyes or blond hair.

That was a good sign.

What's next Rose?

I couldn't kill him. Now He was on campus and somehow being controlled by the Blond Strigoi if my dream was any kind of warning. Plus I wasn't a student here anymore and I doubted they would let me stay for long. Not to mention everyone here thought I was crazy. Great, as if my luck could get any worse. I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose. I could move, another good sign. I had to come up with a plan to save everyone.

Again.

My life sucked.

I got enough comments to urge me on so I ended up writing all of it instead of dragging it out like I was expecting to do. I hope it was pleasing. More to come! Review Please!

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